The best musical ever to feature children playing wise-crackin', mustachioed fully-grown hoodlums and molls should be dodgy but somehow it works. Alan Parker directs this pitch-perfect classic set in Prohibition era Chicago and starring Scott Baio a
s the heartbreaker and Jodie Foster, above, as Tallulah, sporting the only kiss curl of her career. (1976)
BULLITTToday, Film4, 11pm
Steve McQueen at his most iconic as Frank Bullitt, the cop selected to guard a Mafia informant. This Academy Award-winning thriller, directed by Peter Yates, is probably most famous for the car chase through the streets of San Francisco. (1968)
THE DEER HUNTERTuesday, Film4, 10.55pm
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep star in this classic Vietnam war drama, below, which won five Academy Awards, and follows the impact of war on a trio of smalltown steel workers who enlist into the army. (1978)
COLD MOUNTAIN
Wednesday, BBC3, 9pm
It may not be Anthony Minghella's greatest, but this has many of the hallmarks of the late director's sweeping, cinematic style. An epic love story set in the waning days of the US civil war starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. (2003)
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIESaturday, STV, 1pm
There couldn't be a much greater role for Maggie Smith than this one, as Muriel Spark's liberated and eccentric young school teacher in 1930s Edinburgh. Teaching her girls about love, life and art, one pupil is not so convinced that Miss Jean Brodie remains in her prime. (1969)
ALIEN RESURRECTIONSaturday, Channel 4, 10pm
Sigourney Weaver's reprisal of her role as Ripley for the third time is the best of the sequels. Set 200 years after the last film, Ripley has been cloned and begins to develop some alien-ish characteristics of her own. (1997)
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